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40 - DECKS AWASH Pentecostal. Salvation Army, Anglican. United, and Roman Catholic. I think there is a sensitivity to the work of other churches here. We have a number of ecumenical services, of course. Then, if another church is having a mall fair or takeout supper, we'll attend theirs and they'll attend ours. You become very aware of the programs of others, and then you begin to wonder what we can do. We are very Iortunate within our own parish in having a real active group of people." Father Gale sees unemplcyment as a problem, particularly for the young and the way it affects their development. ..A whole mentality could develop out of it. If the young cannot see much hope of a job, they may develop the habit of sitting back and receiving rather than contributing... Fortunately, there are examples of drive and initiative in the young, as in the predominant Iy Roman Catholic community of 51. Judes. "You have to admire them," says Father Gale. "Selling berries, rabbits, Christmas trees or whatever from the side of the road. I noticed that one boy seemed to have the edge being the first person on the west end of the town. He got most of the traffic coming from the Corner Brook area. 1ben, when 1was driving to Corner Brook 1 noticed that Old Roman Catholic Chapel at Deer lake (photo courtesy Tom Healey c. 1930) 1thought that was rather smart. 1admired his drive and ingenuity. But when 1came over the next hill, there was the boy who had the edge in the first place still ahead of the other one." Some of the effects of unemployment are quite unconscious and even humorous. "I heard of one little girl who asked her mother when she would be able to start learning to figure skate," explains Father Gale. " 'Probably in a few weeks,' replied her mother. And then the girl asked, 'After I'm practising awhile, when do 1get laid off?' Yau can see how the terminology enters the language." Father Gale is also Diocesan Rector of Liturgy and notes that this year is the 20th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. "Vatican II was certainly a turning around of the church, ineluding the role of the priest within the church and the church within society," says Father Gale. "I think there was initially a sense of freedom and newness, but now20years later we are able to go over those changes, and realize more fully why they were made. I think the church today is very pastoral. It accepts people's situations and gives the elergy a greater opportunity to work with people in their real lives. The more our society is unsettled and without roots, the more there is going to be a need to seek mean Ing." I!
Co-operation and communication T DeCKS AWASH - 41 om O'Keefe, 52, is the Memorial University Extension Service field co-ordinator in Deer Lake, having started the office on Farm Road just over two years ago. "I was born in Placentia, where I grew up," Tom tells us. "My family all came from there. My father, who was a schoolteacher, died when I was two years old and my mother brought up the four of us, two boys and two girls. When I was about 14 I worked in my uncle's radio shop and eventually work. There needs to be a balance between creating work just for the sake of employment and providing opportunities for equipping people to be more employable over the longer term. "Local people have to be more involved in the educational system to ensure that the proper kind of training is being provided for the development of the area. We have to get the right kind of educational support for where local communities are trying to go. became involved in radio and TV "It's even more important now repairs from my interest in elec for communities and regions to tronics. Then I became a town clerk which gave me some bookkeeping experience and involved me in a lot of volunteer organizations. "That's how I became interested in the Extension Service job that came open in Clarenville. I had worked with the Placentia Area Development Association in its early years during the phasedown of the Argentia naval base. Through that I found out about the Extension Service and its role in rural Newfoundland. I first operated an office in Clarenville covering the Eastport area, the Bonavista Peninsula and the isthmus of Avalon. I also spent a lot of time on S1. Brendan's and other areas after the government resettlement program. Then I had an office in Marystown for five-and-a-half years before coming here." Tom has a clear idea of what a Tom O'Keefe munity leaders, the people themselves and even now from government programs. People need management and business skills and it's increasingly important that regions lookat how they can improve those skills. The new program recently introduced by government called Canadian Jobs Strategy, with its emphasis on training rather than just 'make-work', may not have yet received full acceptance. I think it's a good program but people need jobs now, even though over the long term the program may work together in these difficult economic times. The development associations, municipal councils, economic development committees, chambers of commerce, school boards, and even service clubs all need to increase their lines of co-operation and communication. There are now signs of improved co-operation and communication in this area." The Deer Lake Extension office has responsibility for much of western Newfoundland. "My area comprises quite different regions all the way from the fishing communities of White Bay and Bonne Bay to the farmfield doing. co-ordinator should be "One of our main interests is in non-formal, community development type of education, but we also set up formal courses," he comments. "We're the link between the community and the university and other agencies. We try to help anyone with an educational need of any kind. "I detect an interest in the region in the development of entrepreneurial skills from com- Road esm on Route 430 leaving Deer Lake.
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